Date: 05 Aug 2002 11:09:34 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Aaron Namba <aaron@namba1.com> Cc: Andrew Kolchoogin <andrew@snark.rinet.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <1028511583.2325.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AGEPIAHMBGINOAKELHMPGECDDLAA.aaron@namba1.com> References: <AGEPIAHMBGINOAKELHMPGECDDLAA.aaron@namba1.com>
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On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 10:55, Aaron Namba wrote: > Actually, there is an ATI card that beats a geforce 4. > > http://www.ati.com/products/pc/radeon9700/ > > Should be out by the end of the month. Yes, and there are no drivers for it either. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daniel O'Connor > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:05 PM > To: Andrew Kolchoogin > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers > > > On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 00:42, Andrew Kolchoogin wrote: > > > You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. > > You want to say me that there is an ATI graphics card that is more > powerful > > than NVidia GeForce? > > An ATI Radeon 8500 is quite a reasonable card - sure it will get it's > ass kicked by a GF4 but lets face it, for the games you can get running > under FreeBSD that need Open GL it is more than adequate. > > It has the advantage of having decent driver support too :) > > > Sorry, but FreeBSD is really good operating system. Good enough for use > it > > on servers. As a system programmer, I wish to have a copy of it on my > home > > desktop. And my son/daughter wish to play games on same desktop. > > > > What should I do? Change video cards every day? Whatever? > > Dual boot? Works for me.. > > > Or use ancient 16-bit NVidia drivers not capable to use even > 1152x864x110 Hz? > > Uh? > The ones that come with XFree86 4.2 don't do that? They do for me.. > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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